sleeping partner

sleeping partner
    n 1: a partner (who usually provides capital) whose association
         with the enterprise is not public knowledge [syn: {silent
         partner}, {sleeping partner}]
    

Sleeping \Sleep"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Sleep}.
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   {Sleeping car}, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with
      apartments and berths for sleeping.

   {Sleeping partner} (Com.), a dormant partner. See under
      {Dormant}.

   {Sleeping table} (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on
      which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.
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Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From {Dormant}.]
   The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
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         It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very
         rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a
         people.                                  --Burke.
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   2. (Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; --
      distinguished from {couchant}.
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   {Dormant partner} (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the
      active business of a company or partnership, but is
      entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share
      in losses; -- called also {sleeping partner} or {silent
      partner}.

   {Dormant window} (Arch.), a dormer window. See {Dormer}.

   {Table dormant}, a stationary table. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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